Eight Nominations and One Withdrawal Sent to the Senate Today

NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE:

Kari A. Bingen, of Virginia, to be a Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, vice Marcel J. Lettre, II, resigned.

Stephen Elliott Boyd, of Alabama, to be an Assistant Attorney General, vice Peter Joseph Kadzik.

Scott P. Brown, of New Hampshire, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to New Zealand, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Independent State of Samoa.

Lee Francis Cissna, of Maryland, to be Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security, vice Leon Rodriguez.

Robert Daigle, of Virginia, to be Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Department of Defense, vice Jamie Michael Morin.

Robert Story Karem, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Derek H. Chollet, resigned.

Kenneth P. Rapuano, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Eric Rosenbach, resigned.

John J. Sullivan, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of State, vice Antony Blinken, resigned.

WITHDRAWAL SENT TO THE SENATE:

Todd M. Ricketts, of Illinois, to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce, vice Bruce H. Andrews, resigned, which was sent to the Senate on January 20, 2017.